COURT RETURNS
FIGURES FOR YEAR 1939. Business at Te Awamutu Courthouse, involving civil and criminal cases, shows a considerable increase over the figures for the previous 12 months, as will be seen from the following comparative figures:— CIVIL CASES.
AMOUNTS SUED FOR. The total amounts sued for were: 1939, £5202; 1938, £3315.
Number of sittings magistrate by 1939 13 1938 12 Number of sittings by justices i ...............i 1 0 Plaints entered 370 212 Civil cases heard 11 2 Judgment summonses issued 101 38 Foreign processes received , 235 109 Warrants issued . 2 1 Applications heard in chambers 41 17
PROSECUTIONS. Cases heard , , , 387 274 Justices’ sittings 69 60 Magistrate’s Sittings ... 13 12
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 60, Issue 4231, 15 January 1940, Page 5
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